California · Nonprofit
YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION
YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,733,341 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($442,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Young Musicians Foundation does
Mission
The Young Musicians Foundations (ymf) mission is to empower under-served, often marginalized students to find creativity, connection, and joy through access to tuition-free music education, performances and experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ymfs service area and number of students served grew to more than 5,000 students at 28 schools and sites across greater los angeles, an increase of more than 30% over the prior year. Programmatic offerings were expanded to include on-site classes in songwriting and composition, and a music and english language immersion created for english language learners at the high school and middle schools grades. The community music academy, which provides tuition-free instrumental and general music instruction to community members of cypress park and surrounding areas, ages 5 through 18, experienced an over 40% increase in the program participants, while significantly expanding the number and type of classes offered.
$988,552 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $988,552.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $475k to $1.1M (+133%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 1% · 2019 5% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 7% · 2023 16% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Walter Zooi
Executive director
Board chair
Jamey Lamanna
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $173k → $353k.
10 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 20% · 2020 16% · 2021 20% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION?
- YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,733,341 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($442,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $2,733,341 in grants to YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $442,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing